Legacy Admissions: Johns Hopkins Drops Preferences, Other Institutions Consider Changes
Johns Hopkins announces it’s eliminated legacy admissions, sparking a wider debate. Will other institutions follow?
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Wolf Richter: Subprime Credit Card Delinquencies Spike to Record High, Past Financial-Crisis Peak, as Other Consumers Relish the Good Times. Why?
The concern is not for banks or investors in subprime-credit-card backed securities. But what does this bifurcation tell us about consumers?
Read more...To Tackle Inequality, We Need To Start Talking About Where Wealth Comes From
How to combat cultural beliefs that justify extreme inequality.
Read more...Bad Bets and the Corona Virus Epidemic
Bad bets by individuals, the state, and globalizing elites
Read more...Not All Keynesian Spending Is Equal
How “Keynesian” ideas regularly misrepresent Keynes.
Read more...A Full Scale Attack on Medical Debt
An integrated proposal for ending medical debt.
Read more...Progressives to Voters Skeptical of Bernie Sanders: This ‘Big Tent’ Movement Is a Winning and Practical Choice
Sen. Bernie Sanders is now being declared the new Democratic frontrunner, and progressives are reaching out to voters that remain skeptical.
Read more...Lower Income Towns in New Hampshire Voted Heavily for Sanders; Richer Towns Did the Opposite
Lower income towns in New Hampshire voted heavily for Sanders, while richer towns did the opposite.
Read more...Subprime Auto Loans Explode, “Serious Delinquencies” Spike to Record. But There’s No Jobs Crisis, These Are the Good Times
Nearly a quarter of all subprime auto loans are 90+ days delinquent. Why?
Read more...Developing Countries Showing America Up
America isn’t a very comfortable place.
Read more...Stunning Sinn Féin Win Upends Ireland Politics
Sinn Féin is on its way to shaking up Ireland.
Read more...A Socialism Equal to the World
Now that “socialism” is an acceptable word to use in conversation, what should socialists and their potential allies seek?
Read more...Sanders Called JPMorgan’s CEO America’s ‘Biggest Corporate Socialist’ – Here’s Why He Has a Point
As Sanders becomes a formidable 2020 contender, demonizing socialism is back in style.
Read more...Corporate Counter-Mobilization: Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ Is Nothing but Fairwashing
Uber and other gig economy employers: “Let them eat a charter.”
Read more...Secular Stagnation: Demand Is Indeed the Culprit
Economists’ bad medicine is a significant factor in our present stagnation.
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